Rydal Water

Rydal Water is one of the smaller lakes in the northern English Lake District National Park. With a maximum depth of 16 m, it is 1.1 km long and 370 m wide.

The lake is located near the village of Rydal between the two and Ambleside and Grasmere Rothay Valley. It is drained by the River Rothay in north-south direction which opens at Ambleside in the Lake Windermere.

In the place lived after moving from Dove Cottage after Rydal Mount, the poet William Wordsworth.

Another well-known country estate on the shores of Rydal Water is Nab Cottage, in which the writer Thomas de Quincey and Hartley Coleridge lived.